Thursday, February 15, 2024

Too Old To Face Justice But Not Too Old To Be President

A US prosecutor’s 345-page report rationalizing why President Joe Biden won’t be facing justice for stashing classified documents carried a feeble defense that rightfully should trigger some soul-searching about the state of America’s leadership and how it got there. But it won’t. 
 
Instead, in a nation where gaslighting and disdainful opprobrium take the place of serious political discussion, Americans are expected to accept that Biden shouldn’t be prosecuted partly because he’s a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”. 
 
If that explanation – proffered in a February 05 report released last week Thursday by US Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Robert Hur – isn’t farcical enough, Americans are also told to accept that the same doddering geezer who’s too addled for a jury to convict him is impeccably capable to serve as president and commander-in-chief.
 
[And yet, Biden’s DOJ are prosecuting his chief political rival, ex-President Donald Trump, for mishandling classified documents. For another, as in the case of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a prominent Democrat is being let off the hook for exposing state secrets despite investigators admitting that they found evidence of criminal conduct].
 
The above is an epic example of American absurdity! Then again, why should anybody be surprised? 
 
It's all about who you are, not whether you broke the law. Never mind that crimes were probably committed, and that national security was jeopardized, Biden’s DOJ concluded. The president is so scatterbrained and demonstrably old that jurors wouldn’t feel comfortable sending him to prison. But like the FBI’s then-director, James Comey, said in sparing Clinton prosecution in 2016, a criminal indictment wouldn’t be the “appropriate” remedy for this particular wrongdoing. Biden, who has been getting away with serious misconduct since he plagiarized his work as a college student nearly 60 years ago, will face no consequences.
 
It has been reported that the population of Malaysia was estimated at 33.7 million in the fourth quarter of last year, marking a 2% increase from 33 million during the same period the previous year. 
 
Chief statistician Uzir Mahidin said out of the total population, 30.5 million were citizens with the remainder being non-citizens.

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